In Lerwick 1961 |
©© Reproduced with acknowledgement to the Shetland Museum & Archives |
Conquistador GN 1
Built | 1930 Alexander Hall & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen as "Pitstruan" (Steel) |
Yard No | 621 |
Owner at New | Great Western Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen ( John Doeg manager ) |
ID no | 148968 |
Launch Date | 18.12.1929 |
Completed | 01.1930 |
Gross Tons | 211 |
Nett Tons | 105 |
Engine | 63 hp T.3-cyl by Alexander Hall & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen |
Length | 123.4ft |
Breadth | 23.1ft |
Depth | 12.1ft |
Owners | |
15.01.1930 | Registered at Aberdeen A.86. |
05.1940 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (P. No. FY.1791) joined 155th minesweeping group based at Swansea. |
14.04.1941 | Owned by Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Trawling Co Ltd, (Aberdeen) (Basil Arthur Parkes manager). |
04.1944 | Fitted out as a smoke making trawler and assigned to Operation Neptune – Normandy landings. |
06.06.1944 | Arrived Mulberry A from Yarmouth with Group A1. Employed smoke making with replenishment at Portland. |
03.07.1944 | Operation Mulberry ended, converted to an ESSO (Fuel carrier). |
11.1944 | Returned to Owners. |
24.07.1945 | Owned by Ardrossan Trawling Co Ltd, Glasgow (Walter K. Paton Ltd managers). |
05.04.1946 | Aberdeen registry closed. |
1946 | Renamed "GRACE PATON" |
1946 | Registered at Glasgow GW 12. |
1958 | Owned Thomas L Devlin & Sons Ltd, Granton Edinburgh. |
1958 | Glasgow registry closed |
1958 | Renamed "CONQUISTADOR" |
1958 | Registered at Granton GN 1 |
12.1961 | Sold as scrap to BISCO (British Iron & Steel Co) for £2532. |
20.12.1961 | Arrived at Charlestown, Fife. |
12.02.1962 | Scrapped by Shipbreaking Industries Ltd at Charlestown, Fife. |